Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case

The authors present the case of a young man victim of a traffic accident during the SARS-CoV-2 confinement, having presented a fracture of the femoral shaft that was soon complicated by respiratory failure with oxygen desaturation. In this pandemic context, Covid-19 RT-PCR tests were carried out but...

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Autores principales: Agbelele, Penance, Van Maris, François, Sanguina, Mario, Zerkly, Bachar, Djebara, Az-Eddine, Girard, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Emergency Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.071
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author Agbelele, Penance
Van Maris, François
Sanguina, Mario
Zerkly, Bachar
Djebara, Az-Eddine
Girard, Pierre
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description The authors present the case of a young man victim of a traffic accident during the SARS-CoV-2 confinement, having presented a fracture of the femoral shaft that was soon complicated by respiratory failure with oxygen desaturation. In this pandemic context, Covid-19 RT-PCR tests were carried out but returned negative. The CT images could suggest either a fatty embolism, a SARS-CoV-2 infection or both. The patient's condition improved significantly after going into intensive care and only symptomatic treatment. This case demonstrates the difficulty of differential interpretation of CT images between fatty embolism and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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spelling pubmed-73920992020-07-31 Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case Agbelele, Penance Van Maris, François Sanguina, Mario Zerkly, Bachar Djebara, Az-Eddine Girard, Pierre Radiol Case Rep Emergency Radiology The authors present the case of a young man victim of a traffic accident during the SARS-CoV-2 confinement, having presented a fracture of the femoral shaft that was soon complicated by respiratory failure with oxygen desaturation. In this pandemic context, Covid-19 RT-PCR tests were carried out but returned negative. The CT images could suggest either a fatty embolism, a SARS-CoV-2 infection or both. The patient's condition improved significantly after going into intensive care and only symptomatic treatment. This case demonstrates the difficulty of differential interpretation of CT images between fatty embolism and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Elsevier 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392099/ /pubmed/32837669 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.071 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Emergency Radiology
Agbelele, Penance
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Sanguina, Mario
Zerkly, Bachar
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Girard, Pierre
Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title_full Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title_fullStr Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title_full_unstemmed Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title_short Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
title_sort use of chest ct-scan images to differentiate between sars-cov-2 infection and fat embolism: a clinical case
topic Emergency Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.071
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